Nadia Waheed, MD

Dr. Nadia Waheed is Associate Professor in Ophthalmology at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and Director of the Boston Image Reading Center. Her research interests include novel imaging modalities in the eye, OCT and OCT angiography, clinical trial endpoint development and the applications of these to non-exudative AMD and diabetic retinopathy.

She has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals, over 100 abstracts, book chapters and editorials and is the co-author on 3 books, the ‘Handbook of Retinal OCT’, the ‘Atlas of Retinal OCT’ and ‘OCT Angiography of the Eye.’ She is an editorial board member of the journals ‘Retina’ and ‘IOVS.’

Dr. Waheed received her medical degree summa cum laude from the Aga Khan University Medical School, Pakistan, and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She trained in Ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School/Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary Program in Ophthalmology, which was followed by a fellowship in retina at the Harvard Medical School/Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. She has since worked at the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute before coming to Boston to the New England Eye Center.